Héloïse Goy, with Alexis Patri
Alain Maneval, a great media figure who brought rock and punk to life on radio and television, died Thursday March 10, at the age of 69. The one who was nicknamed the “dandy rock” and “the crazy ecological intellectual” became known with his show “PO-GO” on Europe 1, before joining Arte.
He was nicknamed the “rock dandy” for his love of music or the “wacky green nerd” for his activism. Alain Maneval, a figure in the media world, died on Thursday March 10. He had been the press officer for Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, before becoming a flagship presenter and pioneer of radio, then television. At the end of the 1970s, Alain Maneval made himself known to the general public with PO-GOa punk and rock music program on Europe 1.
From Europe 1 studios to Arte programs
The name of this program made reference both to the dance of the punk movement, the pogo, and to what was written on all the transistors before the arrival of FM: POGO, for “Small waves – Big waves” . Po-GO was a musical program with unfiltered interviews, it was broadcast around midnight.
Subsequently, this media figure also marked his time on television with the broadcasts Tam Tam on TV6 or Megahertz on TF1. Alain Maneval was then director of programs for the ARTE channel.
Alain Maneval passed away on Thursday from bone cancer. He was 69 years old. Many media personalities like Michel Denisot, Laurence Boccolini and Christophe Conte saluted his memory yesterday on social networks.